ADI’s multi award-winning movie Lion Ark continues to tour Italy as part of the campaign with LAV to secure a ban on wild animals in circuses. On August 5th 2017, Lion Ark screened in Grosseto, Tuscany, showing visitors to the Festival of Life how the lives of animals in circuses are transformed once freed from their cages and chains.

Proposals to phase out wild animal acts have already passed the Italian Senate Culture Committee, the first of four parliamentary hurdles to overcome. If the legislation is passed, Italy would join the growing number of countries, nearly 40 to date, taking action to stop circus suffering.